The Arcades Project - Operi

unscrupulous speculator and promot.er. "I Eduard FlHhs, Die Karikatur de,.
eW'opiiischen Viilker (Munich), vol. 1, p. 354. [bI,7]
""The last issue of La Caricature, dated August 27, 1335, was . .. devoted . .. to
the promulgation of the . .. September Laws, . .. which ... were represented in
the form of pears." Eduard Fuchs, Die Karikatur del' enropiiischen Volke, vol. 1,
p. 352. [bI,B]
Travies, the creator of Mayeux; Gavarni, the creator of Thomas Vireloque; Daumier,
the creator of Ratapoil-the Bonapartist lumpenproletarian. [bl,9]
On January 1, 1856, Philipon rebaptizes Le Journal pour ,-ire as Le Journal
mnusant. [bI,IO]
"'Whenever a priest . .. exhorted the girls of' a village never to go to the dance, or
the peasants never to frequent. the tavern, Courier's epigrams would climb the bell
towel' and sound the alarm, proclaiming the advent of t.he Inquisition in France.
His pamphlets, meanwhile, would make the whole count.ry listen to the sermon."
Alfred Nettement, Histoire de la litteraturefrangaise sous la Restauration (Paris,
1858), vol. 1, p. 421. [bla,I]
"Mayeux . .. is actually an imitation. Under Louis XIV, ... a particular costume
dance caused an uproar: children made up as old men, and sporting enormous
hunchbacks, executed grotesque figures. It was known as the I."Mayeux of Brittany"
dance. The Mayeux who was made a member of the Garde Nationale in 1330
was merely a very ill-bred descendant of these old Mayeux." Edouard Fournier,
Enigmes des mes de Paris (Paris, 1860), p. 351. [bla,2]
On Daumier: "'By no one more than Daumier has the hourgeois heen known and
loved (after the fashion of artists)-t.he bourgeois, this last vestige of t.he Middle
Ages, this Gothic ruin that dies so hard, this t.ype at. once so commonplace and so
eccentric." Charles Baudelaire, Les Dessins de Daumier (Paris -< 1921.»), p. 14.
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On Dmunier: " His (al'icature has formidable hreadth, hut it is quite without. bile
or rancor. In all his work there is a foundation of deeeney and bonhomie. We
should note t.hat he has often refused to handle certain very fine and violent
satirical themes, because, he said, they exceeded the limits of the comic and could
wound the feelings of his fellow men." Charles Baudelaire, Les Dessins de Daumier
(Paris